Jersey City woman charged with setting 3 fires in own apartment

Google MapsThe residents of an apartment building on Baldwin Avenue near Hoboken Avenue in Jersey City was charged with aggravated arson and failing to control/report a dangerous fire in her home, reports said.

A Jersey City woman was charged with arson and taken for psychological evaluation after she refused to let firefighters into her apartment where she had started three fires, officials told The Jersey Journal.

The 36-year-old resident of an apartment building on Baldwin Avenue near Hoboken Avenue was charged with aggravated arson and failing to control/report a dangerous fire in her home at about 7 p.m. Friday, reports said.

Firefighters responding to the building smelled smoke coming from the woman's apartment, where music was blaring and no one answered the door, reports said.

They found a box covered in plastic burning on the stove, a gas heater in the living room stuffed with paper that was on fire, and a gas heater in the bedroom stuffed with socks and paper was also burning, reports said.

The flames were quickly doused and Police Department Emergency Services Unit officers arrested the resident, whom they knew to be unstable based on previous incidents, reports said. She was admitted to the Jersey City Medical Center for evaluation, reports said.